Opening extremely effectively with a section of the Hipoccratic oath this film concerns itself with an excellent medical student Ted (Milo Ventimiglia) who finds himself steadily drawn further and further into a group with murder as a hobby.
I found this a pleasingly disturbing film.
The themes running through it were intense and adult - sex and death confronted repeatedly from many different angles (so to speak). Immediately it confronts the viewer with the harsh, hideous realities of death, then sets about vividly preying upon fears the world has about what happens to the dead at the hands of the living. Then it smoothly descends into something more disturbing still - a comment on the arrogance of doctors and the living in general.
The acting here really is pretty good, especially from Michael Weston and it has to be to make any of these totally repellent, morally void human beings(or morally hypocritical in the case of Ted) charming or likable
It succeeds in that I was carried along by the film but by the end I felt a bit dirty.
There is just little light or moral centre in this film and whilst that isn't necessarily a drawback, in the sense that the characters seemed a little bit more real in this than they might have otherwise it makes the whole experience heavy going because there is no one at all to root for.
I found this a pleasingly disturbing film.
The themes running through it were intense and adult - sex and death confronted repeatedly from many different angles (so to speak). Immediately it confronts the viewer with the harsh, hideous realities of death, then sets about vividly preying upon fears the world has about what happens to the dead at the hands of the living. Then it smoothly descends into something more disturbing still - a comment on the arrogance of doctors and the living in general.
The acting here really is pretty good, especially from Michael Weston and it has to be to make any of these totally repellent, morally void human beings(or morally hypocritical in the case of Ted) charming or likable
It succeeds in that I was carried along by the film but by the end I felt a bit dirty.
There is just little light or moral centre in this film and whilst that isn't necessarily a drawback, in the sense that the characters seemed a little bit more real in this than they might have otherwise it makes the whole experience heavy going because there is no one at all to root for.